HIGHLIGHTS: Making a quilt in 3 days and auctioning it off to send a kid to camp, barbecue at Maura + Chap's, everyone sitting around the quilting frame in a joint effort hand-quilting.

ARAN GOYOAGA | KATRINEHOLM, SWEDEN

HIGHLIGHTS: The sauna on the lake ready for us at 7:00am, foraging with Ola Rudin - followed by his making of our dinner, rowing to a picnic spot and photo-shoot, the house was amazing.

ARAN GOYOAGA | REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

HIGHLIGHTS: The graciousness of prop lending from: Bjarni Sidgursson and Kirsuberjatréð. The Icelandic stylist and author, Áslaug Snorradóttir, who lead us to the best places in Reykjavik and cooked our meal on Viðey lsland. Free concerts. The Snæfellsnes Peninsula.

HIGHLIGHTS: The music festival at Konstepidenim, the workshop space, the forest art show, walking to the workshop everyday.

SUZANNE NORTHCOTT | PUGLIA, ITALY

HIGHLIGHTS: Dinner in a cave church in the middle of a farmer's field with traditional Italian musicians and the honeycomb dessert, the masseria, the cheese making demonstration, the lunch in Matera (note: homemade walnut liquor)